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No one mentioned the dog **** eating scene from Pink Flamingos? I actually gagged myself and nearly lost my popcorn. The fact that they shot in one non-stop take from dog crapping to Divine eating that did it. There was NO DOUBT it was real.

Re: GWTW casting; I can't believe they gave Zazu Pitts a shot! Who woulda been Rhett, Jerry Colonna?

I guess it's a bit declasse, but Stanley Kubrick. "Paths of Glory", "A Clockwork Orange", "2001", "Dr. Strangelove", "Full Metal Jacket": No matter where Stanley took ya...ya BELIEVED you were there.

Basil....I love Cris' line in his epilogue. After the silly flick is over he shouts " Can you prove it DIDN'T happen??!!??"

Those of you who said Asta...I HAVE an Asta. They're no fun at all! They take over the house, take commands as a SUGGESTION, and eat everything that they can reach. Once my fox terrier got into the peanut brittle. He had so much of it in his mouth that he couldn't shut it or even chew it. He just walked around the house with this solidified mass in his jaws that he could neither swallow or expell. I had to break it out piece by piece as he snarled at me for "stealing" his little snack. He's WAY too smart. Once he tricked my wife out of a chocolate cresant. He saw her put it on the table and immediately began to howl to go out. Immediately after being put out he began the most piteous whining. When my wife opened the door, he shot by her, snagged the cresant and flew up the steps with it and dove under the bed where he ate it at his leisure. This is when I displayed MY intelligence by easing on down to the basement.

When a man is doing "women's work" like doing the dishes, it is somehow nessicary that he wear the frilliest, daintiest, apron possible. This shows how humiliating, demeaning, and emasculating it is to contribite to the household. (See Jim Backus in "Rebel W/O a Cause")

HKG I hope you have a ton of BACON!!

My underateds: Rhonda Fleming, Virginia Mayo, (how great was she as Cody Jarrett's faithless wife in "White Heat"?)Thelma Todd (nearly forgotten) Boris Karloff (a fine actor with or without a monster make-up) John Caradine, Robert Taylor, and I'll throw in a modern one : Bruno Kirby.

Lol Steve Reeves as Herc. Here's how a typical Herc fight was choreographed: A guy comes at Herc from the right :POW! A guy comes from the left: POW! Then 2 guys come at him and he dashes their heads together: Then 3 guys come at him : he grabs a spear and holding it out in front of him horizontally, he uses it to push them all away, then he bends the spear around the neck of the next attacker. Then 4 guys attack him and he uproots a column and throws it at them, knocking them all flat at one blow. Then A WHOLE BUNCHA GUYS jump him and he is lost from sight...is he down? NO! He bursts upward, flinging his arms up like a ref signalling a touch down, and the guys go flying in all directions! Great stuff!

Sorry, I mean Mongo

Superman I or II Bg? In One, Supe looks for a phone booth and is non-plussed as he sees the typical modern phone station. In Two when the three bad guys use their "super breath " to create a huge gale there's a phone booth laying on it's side, being blown along the street with a guy in it talking unconceredly to a pal.

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Ars, Robert Mitchum was so gay he was the "den mother" at Rock's slumber parties! Yeah, like you had a SHOT!

I love it Moira! Another Ancient history buff! Anyway to add more fuel to the "Thumbs down" controversy, some sources believe that the signal for death was the thumb pointed to one's own heart, signifing "let him have it here." Yes good old Nero; although it is thought that indeed he tried very hard to have the fire extinguished he was still in the top five of nutty Roman emperors. We can add Commodus, Caligula, Elagabus and Vitellius the glutton. No one ever came up with a more elaborate plot than the one Nero invented to murder his mother: the collapsing ship. But he shoulda known that it wouldn't work. People as evil as Aggripina never go quietly, and he hadda kill her the old-fashioned way.

I'm so old that when I was a teen-ager the Dead Sea was only "sick".

In "Patton" the Allies win. So there!!!!

Well Prof you inspired me. I guess I can start off by saying the gas station scene in the "Birds" led to the phone booth scene in that movie which is also memorable.

Prof, here in N.J. we aren't ALLOWED to pump our own gas. This results in lower prices! In Pa. & Del. the gas prices avereage at least a dime more a gallon at any given time. Last I paid was $1.42 for regular unleaded. But you still gotta wash your own winders.

"Bruce" from "Jaws". Was there ever a better villian? I know he's a machine but they also used a real shark for the underwater scenes.

Also the Romans frequently re-enacted scenes from mythology. Perenial favorites were Europa and the bull, as well as the hounds tearing Acteon apart. Imagine the poor victims who knew their mythology and knew just what awaited those playing these roles! One poor sob was cast as Prometheus and was chained to a rock so an eagle could peck at his liver, which had been exposed. They were just as cruel to animals...thus a bear and lion would be forced to fight each other by using spears and torches to prod the reluctant.

Moira, as odd as it may seem, the Romans were fond of female gladiators vs. midgets.They found it quite humorous. I guess the sight of a little person clutching his abdomen, trying to keep his intestines from falling to the sand was a real-knee slapper to these folks.

Spence don't feel too bad about it. If he did this poll in 2000, "Titanic" woulda been in the top 5. Time will tell.

I use the terms "movie, film, flick, interchangably simply to vary the noun as I was taught you should do to avoid boring repetion. When I use the term "celluloid" then I'm being snotty...peasents!

Hey Pink watch out for Jan Morrow...I hear she has a statue of a fertility goddess that she's stll trying to unload....

Here's another. In "Vacation" when Chevy Chase tries to find the gas-fill door on his brand-new "Family Truckster" and tears the license plate off and accidentally flings it onto another car.